The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-21
Industr;a, and Trade Notes.

Industrial and Trade Notes.
The Indianapolis works now have orders
on hard keep them busy until March.
The Byrkit Latin and Sheathihg Company.
this week shipped two Of their machines to
Canads.
The INDIANAPOLIS cabinet-works have received
orders from Chicago this week for 200 desks to
go into new Offices in that city.
The Acme Touring mill last week turned out
9036 barrels of -four, being the largest produc-
tion ever made in one week at these mills.
The car-works employ four hundred hands,
mainly on a contract with the Aschison. Topeka
g. Santa Fe road, for $50 box and $50 coal cars.
Budd e. Co have commenced killing thou
sands of young chickens store in their ice stor-
age house and then ship them East in the early
spring
good, and the business of the year will, without
question. be % per cent ahead of that of last
year with the leading firms
The Eagle machine-works expect to get into
their foundry and carpenter shop on the
first of next month. They will then have one
of the largest and most complete shops in the
State
A. A. Barnes. manager of the Udell wooden
ware works, states that they are smothered
with orders. Those sent in since the first of the
month would keep the works busy for three
months to come.
D. E. Stone &c CO. manufacturers of fancy
cabinet ware. last month shipped their produc-
ton 256 different points in the United States.
To dav they ship eighty cases to San francisco
The Commercial Travellers Association is in
a very fiourishing condition. Its membership
has increased sixty IN the last ninety days. The
company has over Sl1. 900 in its treasury. Its
death list has been very small the last year
Kingan & Co. commenced this week killing
5000 hogs per day and on the first OF next month
will swell the number to 1000 per dav. Within
the last week they have shipped from Chicago to
XII, here TO- 900 hogs but large cent of their
supplies now come from Indiana and central
Illinois.
The Jsnney Electric Company has during the
past week received orders from Ross, Bradley &
Co. Bay City. Mich, for incandescet plant;
from Haugh, Ketcham 81 Co. ou-works. Tor
twenty-light arc plant. and from Bowling Green,
KY, for a sixty-arc light OUTFIT. the city being
the purchaser.
Steam boiler manufactures unusually
crowded with orders Sinker & Davis have
some twenty orders on their books and some
of them for NESTS" of large capacity. So
prosperous have been manufacturers OF late
that they replacing their old and patched up
boilers with new ones.
P. NJ. Gallahue 6 Co.. manufacturers Of
Block, on West MARYLAND street. are largely in
creasing their production. They have ninety
girls employed in their establishment. and ship
their goods to nearly every State in the Union
west of the Alleghenies-
The efforts of horniny mill men to advance
prices have thus far proved unsuccessful Inc
grade of corn they use is higher proporeionately
than the goods when manufactured AID 60 fur-
ther reduce the cost of the labor seems impos-
sible. The same condition of things exists with
the starch manufacturers
The Indianapolis veneering Company are doing
the largest bust ness this fall it has done
They are furnishing thousands Of feet of veneer
ing for the Singer manufacturing company and
are receiving large orders daily from Eastern
States, some of which they are unable to fill, SO
crowded are they with work.
Tomorrow, the VanCamp Canning Company
will dismiss couple of hundred girls. the
tomatoe canning season is over. However. they
will kQan unit at m All inO
jellies and nince meats. Some of the girls have
become such experts at peeing tomatoes that
they have made 50 per week for two months
past and the average paw of the girls employed
at the establishment Is 81 IS per week.
Matters are not moving along smoothly as
desirable at the new steel rail-mill. The mill
seems to be out of proportion and further
pense must be incurred to make it success.
The producing capacity of ineots is about 100
tons per day while the roling-mill has capac-
ity to turn out 400 tons of rails every twenty
four hours The rails which have been manu-
featured ut the mill are spoken of by expert
judges as being of superior quality. A num-
Der of men were brought here from the East to
work in the mill and they much of the
time out Of work that they are complaining.
The Nordyke & Marmon Company. of this city,
received order from Don Jesus Mancas. of
Fresnio, Zacatecas, Mexico. for Touring mill;
another from Don Lues Parrar. Durango. Next
CO. end a third from Daro Valdes, Pueblo, Next
co, all within the last ten DAYS part of which
will be shipped by sea- via New York. and part
by way of the Mexican Central railway. The
Mexican dollar has to be subjected to discount
of about SO per cent. to make it equal to the
United States dollar, while the freight charges
customs and internal revenue increase the cost
of the consignment to about 50 hundred
weight, thus throwing substantial impediments
in the way of an increased trade between the
two countries
A machine for automatically measuring and
winding betting for bet-deaiers' use has been in
vented by Walter L. Gallup. of this city 1t is
entirely novel. similar device having
been constructed. A roll of belt of any kind
size may be easily handled raised from the
floor the desired quantity measured off
rately and rolled ready to deliver to customer
in single operation. This is accomplished in a
space of few square feet. and in a short time.
by points of convenience entirely unknown in
the old and general methods in for this pur-
pose, and demonstrating clearly the practical
value of this invention. Letters patent nave
been applied for. and the machines will be
ufactured in this city by a company which will
be known as w. L. Gallup & Co. No machines
have yet been shipped. owing to delay in get
ting them made but orders have been received
which will require months to fill; and the enter
prise bids fair to take important place among
the manufacturing industries of this city.
Personal aud Society.